people
A guru and powerful man of peace from India. Led the Indians to freedom from the United Kingdom using passive non-resistance.
Mahatma Gandhi
Uprising in China against foreigners and foreign influence.
The Boxer Rebellion
This refers to the worldwide campaign the US has engaged in to rid the world of terrorists.
War on Terror
This was built to separate the communist east from the free west of Berlin.
Berlin Wall
Money paid to the victorious military by the losing country to make up for some of the damage the war caused.
reparations
Wrote the Communist Manifesto with Engels. A German man who.
Karl Marx
Site of a Ukrainian nuclear disaster that dumped lots of radiation on Belarus and the Ukraine.
Chernobyl
Another name for WWI.
The Great War
This bomb was developed shortly after WWII and incorporated both fission and fusion. More powerful than the atomic bomb.
hydrogen bomb
system whereby you pay back debt through service or work of some nature.
debt peonage
South African leader who stood up against Apartheid. He was imprisoned.
Nelson Mandela
This fire not only killed almost dozens of women but led to new and lasting reforms in industry and in fire prevention.
Triangle Shirtwaist factory Fire
Site of the first nuclear (atomic) bomb to ever be dropped on a city in history.
Hiroshima
Due to the Cold War, many nations around the world practiced this by building up their military and using that military to gain advantage in diplomatic relations.
Militarism
People of Dutch descent who migrated to South Africa and cultivated the land.
Boers
American president who helped bring the Cold War to an end. He was a very popular and strong president.
Ronald Reagan
This event occurred when over a million Armenians were killed by the Turks.
Armenian Genocide
Name of drug wars fought between the British and the Chinese.
Opium Wars
The Cold War, from the US perspective, was fought to stop this economic philosophy and the dictatorship that goes with it from spreading.
communism
control of and responsibility of an area of land and people.
dominion
The "George Washington of South America", he led many countries there to victory in throwing off the control of the Spanish.
Simon Bolivar
This war was part of the US policy of containment. It was very controversial and was America's longest war.
Vietnam War
Alliance between military and business making war very profitable.
Industrial-Military Complex
This organization was formed by the US and our European allies to stand against the USSR and communism.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
People who found themselves far from home following WWII. There were millions of them in Europe.
Displaced Persons